Oh, I may be on the side of the angels, but don't think for one second that I am one of them. – Sherlock

Lemur King has a Lemur Subject!

It dawned on me that what I really wanted was a lemur, not a cat. Lemurs are legal, just not nearly as maintenance-free as cats. What to do, what to do?

So… with the proper bleaching compounds for most of her fur and select rings around her tail, and a few hair dyes for really accentuating certain parts – viola! Stage 1 is complete. Next will come Stage 2, with extra bleaching when the sores on her body from the bleaching solution heal and then Stage 3 where finally frosting will make it all blend in.

Here is Melody after her final rinse. A bit wet still but looking good all the same – just like a little lemur. Yes, a faux-lemur but I am ok with it. I have a few hundred really good scratches from trying to keep her held still while we bleached her and all but it’s worth it, as you can see.

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If I had to pick the ways that I thought I could nail down a comprehensive “Total Lifetime FAIL Award” strategy, I don’t think I could have done it quite so well. It’s old news but I haven’t addressed it yet.

Cross-Dressing, Show-Tunes-Loving Connecticut Priest Busted

for Selling Meth and Laundering Money Through His Sex Shop

Okay. Pretty impressive. Shows a certain spontaneity.

Following news that one of their former priests was arrested earlier this month for his alleged involvement in a cross-county meth ring, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Bridgeport, Connecticut, released a statement expressing “shock and concern” for the “gifted, accomplished and compassionate” Monsignor.

The Diocese stuck by Wallin even after he became the owner of a North Haven sex and smoke shop called Land of Oz & Dorothy’s Place shortly after leaving the priesthood.

For all I know this is what you have to do to leave the priesthood… behave so thoroughly badly that they just finally let you go. A lot of them put up with ped-priests for far longer than they ever should have (which I deem to be about 15 seconds).

At least Pope Benedict was allowed to say how he felt and then step down. Hat is off to him for the guts that it took.

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Now we have tutoring programs where it is ok to say “black kids only” because while we are here for the children, we’re more here for the failing black children than the failing white ones. Because failing black children need help more than failing white children.

A school principal said no white children were allowed at an after-school tutoring program, and now some parents call it discrimination.

The principal at Mission Viejo Elementary in Aurora sent a letter telling parents the program is only for students of color. Parents CBS4 talked with said they were shocked to see, in this day and age, what they consider to be segregation.

Of course once black principal Andre Pearson got wind that his crappy behavior wasn’t universally loved he quickly sought to contain the damage.

Before Cox could complain to the school, Pearson contacted her directly. His voicemail only seemed to reinforce the segregated tutoring idea.

“This is Andre Pearson. It’s focused for and designed for children of color, but certainly, if we have space for other kids who have needs, we can definitely meet those needs,” Pearson told Cox in the voicemail.

Pearson declined to comment on camera, but a district spokesperson claims it was all just a big misunderstanding.

“I think what the answer is, is that he made a mistake,” Tustin Amole with the Cherry Creek School District told CBS4.

The new tutoring program was started by parents of minority students to help bridge the achievement gap.

The district is now clarifying that the program wasn’t meant to segregate anyone.

“But we have had lots of students sign up for the tutoring. Many of them are white and we will be accepting all of them,” Amole said.

“I just want everybody to be treated equally,” Cox said.

The new tutoring program began Wednesday. CBS4 was told a letter would be going out to parents to clarify the error that was made.

Sorry, but that wasn’t an error. They fully intended for a coloreds only group. It was not a mistake or a misunderstanding. It was yet another case in a long line of folks who think it ain’t racism if it forms their own groups to exclusions of others.

Show me one minority/disadvantaged group that wouldn’t gladly turn the tables if the situation were reversed. Go on, show me.

You know, I don’t usually think of Jews when I think minority or disadvantaged. They are hands down some of the toughest scrappiest will-do minded people out there. I look at them and don’t see weakness.

I will award you points however. The world gives them shit about the Palestinians but I am hard pressed to find any one who has shown more restraint than Israel. China or Russia would have bombed them into the Stone Age by now. And didn’t most of the Arab states herd their Palestinians into Israel in the first place?

But if they don’t perpetuate the racial divide, some of these kids might not realize how disadvantaged they are simply because of their skin tone thereby reducing the future power of the grievance mongering industry.

Why is he called a priest if he left the priesthood in favor of running the sex shop/ money laundry/ meth store? And this galls me. WTF business is it of the Church to stand by someone who leaves in favor of practicing that which the Church condemns as sin??

Made my way over here from one of your replies on AggieSith’s site. Heh. Love the lemurkat!

The ex-priest….I can only think that Satan himself is scratching his head and tormenting Dante because they’re not really sure which level this guy should go to. As for the Catholic church, I have no idea why they continue to support priests who get caught red-handed in crap like this…sure, there’s the whole “forgiveness” thing, but there’s that bit where Jesus was grillin’ fish on the beach and gave the “render unto Caesar” line….the dude is a scum-sucking douchecanoe (thank you for that turn of phrase, Tam!) turdburger (picked that one up from http://www.badassoftheweek.com). Forgive him of his sins, then toss him to the mercy (or lack thereof) of the prison system. General population. He’ll get to explain his mistakes to God Almighty pretty quickly.

Unfortunately, when we got rid of discrimination, we set up an apology system by which we (whites) were no longer allowed to treat anyone as inferior, or equals….we were required to feel guilty for everything that minorities have had to go through, whether we ourselves were directly involved. So instead of raising minorities up to equal status, we’ve been required to put them on a pedestal, and treat them as better than us (or more entitled, due to circumstances that happened long before the vast majority of the moochers today were even born). I keep seeing that the discrimination iceberg has not broken up and melted, just flipped over. Nothing has changed, and as long as there are those who are willing to exploit the “poor little oppressed minorities” (*cough*Jesse-Jackson-n-company*cough*), nothing is going to change. Tutors for “children of color”? Tutors have always been there. There are children of color who take advantage of them, too…those with the drive to rise above the stereotypes and actually make something of themselves. Those with the entitlement-mentality…they aren’t interested in changing, just in having more given to them. Screw that.

The REAL question is why that is a “real question”. Lemurk King hates the idea that kids aren’t tutored regardless of skin color. THEY ARE KIDS. They need help. It doesn’t frickin’ matter what skin color they are.

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